Schools, colleges OK avoid right-to-work at a heavy financial risk

6:48 PM,
Mar. 27, 2013

Written by

Kathy Gray
Detroit Free Press

With right-to-work laws going into effect Thursday, more than 40 school districts and five colleges have approved contracts that allow them to skirt the new and controversial law for at least a few years.

But the education institutions do so at their own risk.

Republicans in the state House of Representatives are furious that districts have found a way to avoid the law by extending their contracts and are threatening to financially punish the districts and institutions, potentially costing them thousands - and in some cases, millions of dollars. ...